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- Athaliah, in the Old Testament, the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel and wife of Jeham, king of Judah. After the death of Ahaziah, her son, Athaliah usurped the throne and reigned for seven years. She massacred all the members of the royal house of Judah (II Kings 11:1–3), except Joash.
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Feb 3, 2023 · Athaliah was queen of Judah from 841–835 BC and the only female monarch to sit on David’s throne in biblical history. Athaliah was the daughter of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel of Israel, and she married Jehoram, the eldest son of Judah’s King Jehoshophat.
- Jehoiada
Six years passed, during which the usurping queen mother...
- Joash
King Joash of Judah first comes on the scene when Athaliah,...
- King Ahab
Ahab was one in a line of increasingly evil kings in...
- Queen Jezebel
“Jezebel” is a name synonymous with evil; she is the epitome...
- Why Was Elijah Afraid of Jezebel
Elijah had just had a “mountaintop experience” in defeating...
- Jehoiada
Apr 15, 2024 · Jehoram, also known as Joram, ascended to the throne of Judah after his father, King Jehoshaphat, died. He ruled as king over the southern kingdom of Judah for eight years. As part of his royal duties, Jehoram married Athaliah, the daughter of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel of Israel.
- Athaliah – Bible Queen’s Struggle For Power
- Athaliah’s Son Murdered
- Aziah’S Desperate Flight
- Athaliah Takes Command
- Who Murdered Athaliah’s Grandchildren?
- Athalia Is Betrayed by Jehoiada
- Athaliah Is Murdered
- Who Murdered The Children?
Who was Athaliah? Athaliah was probably the daughter of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel, rulers of the rich northern kingdom of Israel (see map below).She was married at an early age to King Joram of the southern kingdom of Judah. The marriage cemented an alliance between the two countries. When Joram died and her son Aziah became king, she became ‘Geb...
Buther son Aziah only reigned for one year. When he was 22 he was assassinated by Jehu, who had usurped the throne of Israel. At the time, Aziah had been visiting his cousin Joram, king of the northern kingdom. It was a perfect opportunity for Jehu to kill both of them together, and seize Judah.
First,Jehu killed Joram. Then he wheeled his chariot around to pursue Aziah. Aziah had seen Joram being murdered, and knew he was outnumbered. He turned and raced his chariot away from the frightful scene. There is a heartrending account of his desperate flight up the hill towards safety in the fortress of Gur. He did not make it. He was shot by ar...
But there was one survivor: Athaliah. Spared because she was, after all, just a woman, she now took command of Judah– there were no surviving adult sons or grandsons to do so – and became its queen. Such a thing had never been done before. Women might influence politics, but they had never ruled in their own right (Margaret Thatcher’s power also ou...
When the stories of the kings of Israel and Judah were finally written, Athaliah was accused of murdering all the children, including her own grandsons, so that she could be queen. But it is hard to see why she would have done so if there had been a surviving boy or young man to take over. It is much more likely that Jehu’s agents killed the boys a...
She held on to power for six years – 842-837? 849-842? the dates are disputed), buteventually the leader of the Yahwist party, Jehoiada, counter-attacked. He produced a male child whom he said had survived the massacreseven years ago, and who was supposed to be a royal prince saved from death by the action of Athaliah’s own sister Jehosheba, who al...
Athaliah heard the sudden commotion, and was taken by surprise. She tried to escape but was hunted down like an animal, pursued by the mercenaries then assassinated at the Horse Gate of the palace. The boy, firmly controlled (at first!) by Jehoiada and the Temple party, succeeded to the throne.
The question is, did Athaliah kill all her young male relatives, as described in the Bible? What would have been her motive? There is certainly a precedent in ancient Israel for killing all other possible heirs to the throne, but the boys she is said to have killed were her own grand-children and their survival would have guaranteed her powerful po...
Athaliah, in the Old Testament, the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel and wife of Jeham, king of Judah. After the death of Ahaziah, her son, Athaliah usurped the throne and reigned for seven years.
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A raid by Philistines, Arabs and Ethiopians looted the king's house, and carried off all of his family except for Jehoram and Athalia's youngest son, Ahaziah. After Jehoram's death, Ahaziah became king of Judah, and Athaliah became queen mother, or gebirah.
ATHALIAH ăth’ əlī’ ə (עֲתַלְיָה׃֙, The Lord Yahweh is great). 1. The wife of Jehoram, king of Judah, and daughter of Ahab, king of Israel, and granddaughter of Omri (2 Kings 8:18, 26; 2 Chron 22:2). She reigned from 841-835 b.c.
Athaliah as Queen: When Jehoram was 32 years of age, he succeeded to the throne, and Athaliah became queen of Judah. She inherited her mother's strength of will, and like her developed a fanatical devotion to the cult of the Zidonian Baal.
